The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1928, Page 4

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, ¥, JULY Az, 1928 Hacer The son of Tatu: D. | ay 38, has been given a job at $40 al If he proves capable at the Wetime he’s 35 his old man has prom- | ised to give him $42.50 a week to} Week. Het married on. Senator Norris said yesterday @m chock full of fight, with no As PENPUSHER SAYS: | E s stand: out on | 1” and t know | there’s a war going Ln Ke ‘orresnondent Shows Merchants’ Friend Wall’ Street Chances “That's M. La Follette, the most rac nan who ever fought a battie for the rich far business men.” “You don’t say.” “Hes « trust buster from Wis- tonsin.” “Yeh. What party is he in?” “Phe republican party.” ME? OK does it believe in bustin’ © the trusts?” “No the grew stronger than ever under Coolidge." “Well Ma if La Follette wants P to bust the trusts why is he in Whe party that builds them?” “Adolph don’t wipe your chin on your sleeve it calls the flies.” Mtwelve young ladies from girl jools will spend a couple of aft- Fhoons studying New York tene- jent houses to determine once and all the cause of poverty under auspices of the Charity Organ- ‘Ation Society. They will then ivulge their solution of the prob- ‘m in a three-hour examination. “Pkis will be a good example of the gnequal distribution of the world’s wumer. These twelve examination vapers will be in the hands of one SXaminer, while Handouts has to scurry ‘ither and yon for a bit of PEA td ‘rest * * Out of twenty brands of popu- lar politicians, Old Iron, the can. ins spite of being blindfolded with two thicknesses of mosquito netting immediately picked out Al Smith, shown above, on right, on Gecount of his delightful aroma of Tammany corruption. * * * B. J. Mullaney publicity director if the Mlinois Public Utilities Com- nittee, says: “We are trying to promulgate the idea rapidly among the news- papers that public utilities offer @ very fertile field developing Tegular, prompt-paying custom- ers advertising columns of the newspapers. When the idea pene- tyates the United States, unless human nature has changed, we will have less trouble with news- Papers than we have had in the past.” The capitalist newspaper is arostitute who would never decsad yo8 discussion of morality. But Tha business. jjrice? A. Johnston, Chief Justice of ‘he Supreme Court:—‘The that wins in politics is integrity.” ‘Why, Mr. Johnson, you know better an that. ‘| Edward Martin, Chairman of the ylvania Republican State Com- Ittee:—“Members of the party who | are playing or place will be ex- d to line up four-square for the | ticket.” They will. Republican jans are not so much inter- in what they support as what 4 that we consider the nations ily as units of power, measur- them by a common standard— s standard of military and econ- nic power.” Glenn Frank heads a jiy in Wisconsin that sup- a Reserve Officers Training thing | "LEDGER JOCKEYS’ WORST SLAVES, (By a Worker Correspondent) I take liberty to write of what I e never seen DAILY WORKER, It concerns t real Wall Street white collar Ledger Jockey. I happen to be one of these, not from desire, but from the conditions thrust upon me, after being locked out and black-listed in the Pressed Car Shops in Chicago and drifting to this “rosy” path of white collar slavery. A great many outside of this job imagine the work of an office i to be soft. On the contrary, | most nerve-wrecking, as ted as any other line to which the masters har- ness us, especially, when one looks at this stupid, miserably exploited crowd without even the slightest semblance of an organizatipn. “Grand Profession.” Aiter an aspirant for. an office position graduates from a grammar school, two or four years of high school, he is started at the lowest ” which enables him to have spending money, providing his papa is furnishing the room and board. If | he studied that “grand” profession | every Henry Dubb studies, book- | keeping, after about five years he receives the enormous sum of $80 to $35 per weex,—in some cases. If he is bounced hy the good master for asking for more pay, the next place he may get, he must take a cut of $5 or more, “because you do not know our line of business.” But the only difference between one or the other is their different system of files and routine which one is able to learn in two weeks. If you can’t learn it, out you go. One studying to be an accountant after going through high school and four years of grilling at this subject, gets $20 per, and after a year one advances “rapidly” to $30. But what I really mean is by a season, tober to June when “most,” or all come tax. After that one walks | around the ring as one of our car- toonists displayed some. time ago—! job, job, where? Finally one lands » place; again, “you don’t know the method, so we'll have to start you | off at $25, and if you prove good we'll raise you.” Out on the Street... | By that time you're mainly | “raised” out on the sidewalk. , Only through sheer luck some re a, in and is to then that all the pra“sin, in- structors in, school. point. These same poor slaves that <ry y all their lives, teeching »y and night and 1 vine when others sleep, after 1 oi “is strain most ;4 them re- ceive what a 'm_n- plumber or a | bri a» .yer earns, I remember .t:rlv several poems hun~ on the aoor- |] of our class- room, po* su, to t’c dollar as the greatest .{m, ‘Yr. thin? to have, the one goal, Th. )oison.d pupil goes out witt this poem hanging on his nose, Tnat is all he knows of and thinks. But it is like the straw that that would not pull its load. Employment Agency Hoax. The only place we white collar slaves can apply for a job is at the | grafting employment agency. They | charge us with a week’s wages for = furnishing us with an ad- | | | 4 was tied before the head of a mule | dress to look for a job, The agency cannot do a wiggle in helping us get a position. An applicant must pos- sess the required qualifications and many times many more than are ac- tually necessary. The bosses usually eall for a mere bookkeeper, but in many cases they require one to have | years of experience and some knowl- | edge of accounting and then offer him a common bookkeeper’s assist- ant’s wages. Race Discrimination, | Last winter I, also, had a good | dose of Coolidge’s prosperity. I | tramped around from one agency to | another with battalions of men seek- ing work. In my daily routine I came in contact with a great num- ber of Jewish lads, and old American “democracy” showed her hideous | method of dealing. We are told of | fair and square ‘treatment to all, but the Anglo-Saxon masters that squawk about equality on the 4th of July, discriminate &gainst the Jew- ish boys as they do against the | Negroes. accompanied with a Jewish lad, the master would curtly answer “noth- ing doing,” but would hire the “real” Americans, all mainly of English |birth. Or whenever they hire a num- | ber of Jewish workers, then they likewise hire a similar number of Christians, in order to have them | nagging at each other in order to |make them divided against each | other instead of against the boss. The American Telegraph and Tele- | phone Company does not employ \ Jewish workers and a great many of the other Wall Str-et houses, as | they stispect them all of socialism, laziness, and what not. During this mad_ profit-making that is now going on in Wall Street the miserable Henry Dubbs are worked from morning to midnight and even until two and three in the morning. Whenever any of you readers of The DAILY WORKER | happen to pass around that end of the exploited town look in towards the rear of the houses and you will | see poor beings, who imagine they are “In the boss, working % because only at su h seasons that | come on annually. from about Oc-| To every office that I} written about in| of the corporations turn in the in-|&test foundry, but after the war the Handing the Glad Hand t toa a Fascist Flyer | of aviators on spectacular shirt message. flights, One of Mussolini's favorite propaganda stunts is the dispatching incidentally spreading the black Photo shows Capt. Qabelli being grected by Carranza, Mexican flyer, on the eve of the former's flight to Rome. By CLARINA MICHELSON (Special to The DAILY WORKER) LENINGRAD, U. S. S. R. (By Mail).—The many buildings of the metal foundry, the Red Putilov Works, stretch along the “Street of Strikes,” in Leningrad. A river runs } through the property, there is large park and tracks run criss-cross between the many building: Here 12,000 workers make tools, cars, en- gines and tractors. The workers of! Putilov have always been militant. In 1905 the demonstration led by the priest, Gapon, upon the Winter Palace to demand justice from the Czar was started by a strike in the Putilov Works. Throughout the revolution the Putilov workers were in the front rank, And now, when the Workers and Peasants govern- ment needs tractors, it seems ap- propriate that they are being made by Putilov workers. It is a 100- per cent union shop. Of the 12,000 workers, 7,000 are “activists,” men and women, engayed in committee work, dues collecting and other ac- tive work; 2,200 are commuhists and 2,500 comsomols, members of the League of Communist Youth. Wages Higher During the Worid War there were as many as 39,000 workers in this plant was shut and not reopened Juntil 1924. Four years is a short time for many achievements, but here are some of the accomplish- ments of these 12.000 metal work: ers, through their union, the Com- munist Party nucleus, and the Co- operative, with the help of the gov- ernment. ‘Wages “are ‘in’ ‘every ‘case higher) than before the revolution—this year they are 16 per cent higher than last year. . All the workers get two weeks’ vacation with pay and. the men who workin the melting de- partment get four and even six weeks.: They work only 6 days out of every 8. The women get 2 months’ leave before and after child- birth, with full pay. They get $15 to buy necessary things for the baby and receive $4 a month for nine months after the baby’s birth. The plant still operates on an 8-hour day, though in a few departments, away. This is not the night shift, but those who start work early in the morning. When at 5 p. m. you see a crowd coming out of the build- ings, don’t imagine they are very lucky, being iet off early, because on another day, when it’s their turn they must remain at work late. Last March I was working ih a big French Pastry Company on 47th St. Upon hiring me the boss said that I was to start in the mornings. I was surprised and did not know when I was to leave at night. I soon found out. I was led to the rear of the building where the cashier's and bookkeeper’s office is, a dungeon with no air and no daylight, with the stench of the bakery products to breathe. There I noticed a cot, soon learned that the last book- keeper worked day and night and that at night he had the privilege to lie on the cot whenever he felt ex- hausted. The work included slaving Saturdays and Sundays also, in order to retain that $30 per week. Noc a cent extra for all this overtime. There was seJdom any steam-heat. “Efficiency.” I contracted a beastly cold, After some three weeks of work there, a new manager came in with some of his efficiency schemes. In fact they knew only one—reducing the wages. He hired two eighteen-year-old chil- dren, a girl ard a boy, at $14 per week and laid me off. From this place I drifted to Wall Street. The v«y same system that pre- vails in the mines is found in office work. very bit of the day’s work is postponed and overburdened. The bookkeepers are overtaxed with voluminous books to take care of. A minute check-up of their work is constantly made. They have a few “boss patriots” who speed up at a maniacal pace. If you cannot keep up with them out you go. These “patriots” get a tap on the shoulder and a nice smile from the foremen for their speed. As to the general clerical work, every operation is timed and one is told how muck he is to do and when it must be done. The slaves race and try to beat each other to show the boss how good they are. Anyone in poor health is simply out of luck. Such people are most of the time walking around the ring looking for that sign “job.” Such is the case of the white-collar slave, Will eny Wall Street Ledger Jockey answer me to the contrary? AN OFFICE WORKER, USSR METAL WORKERS’ V ADVANTAGES GREAT where there are two shifts, the late shift is 7 hours, Youths Work Only 4 Hours There are 200 “apprentices” from 16 to 18 years old who spend 4| hours in the factory and have hours for theoretical training. About 2 350 yong workers of 16 and 17 iso attend the three-year the factory school, 4 hours work and 4 hours school work. The workers of both these |groups get paid and as they all| belong to the union they also re- ceive full union benefits. There is also a three-year evening technical school for workers of 21 and over who become lower grade engineers. Besides this, there are classes in his- tory, courses on the labor move- ment, political classes, classes of all kinds, and many workers are sent to the universities. Cultural Advantages In the center of the grounds is a book store, where about 100 books are sold daily—80 per cent are books on technical subjects, although Tol- stoy, Gorky and other novelists are popular. The new Soviet Eneyclo- pedia of 20 volumes, costing $150, is in great demand, and for this and other books the workers can get long credit terms. Newspapers and magazines are also sold here. The Pu ‘lov workers get out their own printed paper every two weeks and in every department there is the usual wall .paper: xniren- by--the workers. Once a week each depart ment receives a visit rom the agent ef a cireulating library, who delivers ‘ooks and takes orcers in the half hour allotted to--this-~4m somewof: the departments there are “Red Cor- ners,” where there are radios ano tables where the workers eat their Iunch and make their tea. At the same time, artisis.and, speakens.fre- ‘uently come to entertain them. I. every department one sees notices v excursions, notices of lectures and debates and many accident-preven- tion posters, The workers have their own library, a club, a theatre, a kino, a bath house, a restaurant and a fine chemical laboratory. Fine Homes for Workers On the streets near the foundry crowding out old wooden buildings, are many new stucco apartment houses, with large windows, bal- conies and gardens; homes for the workers, built by the Co-operative and the citv. Nearby is a beauti- ful new building, “The House of Cul- ture,” pat up by the Metal Workers Union and other unions of Lenin- grad, to celebrate the tenth anni- versary. Here is a hall seating 2,000, where the finest Leningrad plays are often produced; 2 kinos, cach seating 300; 2 concert halls, each seating 500; a reading room, a smoking room, a chess room, a bil- liard room, a buffet—over 70 rooms in all. This House of Culture is used each evening by over 5,000 workers—workers from the Red Putilov Works and other workers of the district. Across the front of the building a huge red banner reads: “Withcut books there can be no edu- cation. Without education there can be no Communism.” Three Plead Guilty in Ball Pool Graft Matthew S. Dugan, J. J. Kelly, and Sam Cohen, all of Albany, pleaded guilty today to an indict- ment charging them with participa- tion in the Albany, ball pool. The three were scheduled for trial today and entered their plea to the court after a short conference with their attorneys before the trial be- gan. They will be sentenced today. C«llision Reported by Ship; No Damage LONDON, July 11. 11 (UP). — The} Royal Mail Steam Packett company in*ormed the United Press today of | receipt of a radio message from | Le liner Demerara, saying the ship | tj bean involved in a collision off | “Asem but was entirely safe and | was proceeding to Lisbon. | The ship, bound for South Amer- | icun pots, was due at Lisbon today. In reporting the collision, the liner | did not say what damage if any, it | had incurred or what ship it col- L:Jed with. j 6 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK. | SEATTLE, Wash., July 11 (UP). | —Twenty passengers were injured | today when a state coach bound trom Portland to Seattle crashed With a clty, garpage truck here. oy. Work of White Collar Slaves Nerve- Wrecking, Says Worker Correspondent OLD WORKER WHO SELF IM DESPAIR “4524 THEY TOOK this old play out of the cannery, dusted it off a | Youths at Ten Pay tittle, put a few nice faces in. it Repl ace Adults and made a movie out of it. As a ace / result you can see Pinero’s well- {known play “Trelawney of the (By a Worker Correspondent) | PHILADELPHIA, “By Mail),—! tress” Wells” es a movie called “The Ac- at the Capitol How the capitalistic system of so-, theatre. on the scrap|., It has all the virtues of unlim- " ited American movie gesources: fine with (used this week ciety throws workers heap .as it does out machinery was again gruesomely il- by the beauty Norma Shearer, some | lustrated in this city, today. good direction and lavish costum- | To make both ends meet, Mrs,| ing. And all this is wasted on a ary Seum, 58, did housework by lot of English poppycock that is Her husband, Harry Seum, was aimed to prove that despite all their shortcomings and idiosyncrasies, the “upper clawses” are not so bad after all. The story is of stage people. The | fd }a baker, when he could get the job. | Since last Christmas, however, he worked only two da He is 61 and the bosses need younger men to work under their speed-up system. Fire Old Workers. falls in love with a young blond of When Mary Seum arrived in her| the near-nobility who’s got spunk little home from her long and tedi-| 8!! over though by the looks of him you mever would have guessed it. For blood will tell — blood is that | way. Anyway, the old grandfather | was at the bottom of all the trou- ble. But once a gentleman, always they told me they had taken on aj# entleman. When he realizes that younger man in my place. When you; the cute little actress is no gold. read this I'll be far away. Every- | digger, but loves the young noble thing in the house I leave to you. »i blond nobly, he contributes his This last sentence referred to the) blessing and a little money besides. few. little belongings, chairs, bed,| Blood always tells. The story ete. | goes to prove it and it goes to say Mary thought the note was a joke,| #/so that even poor working girls but going into the bathroom she saw | CM marry nobility. It doesn’t leave her husband’s body hanging by the|the field restricted to the Vander- ous day’s work, she went straight to her bedreom. Here she found a note from her husband which read: “Dear Mary, When I went to work this morning be sweeter? It’s propaganda. An atrocious, sentimental sticky kind of | class propaganda, too. Made- for the most gullible, glorifying the ti- tled “upper classes,” throwing the sop of hope to the simple, that they too can enter this supposedly ex- clusive charmed circle, some day, perhaps—— Ralph Forbes, one of the newer of the handsome Harrys, is the full- blooded blue-blood. Owen Moore has | a prominent part and so have such well-known movie people as Vir- ginia Pearson, Roy D’Arcy, Gwén Lee, Lee Moran and others. The usual program of Cap'tsi presentations is on the bill: Walt Roesner and his orchestra, dancers, singers ad it shou.d be added, a treatre so ccrl on these hot days, that it’s wort) the price of admis- sion to get into the rest rooms to vead a book. W. C. length of rope. Constantly Unemployed. Since last Christmas, until two days ago, a period of nearly seven months, Harry had been together with thousands of his fellow work- ers searching wearily and in vain for work. Finally, two days ago, he secured a SnD TRenG on Dau- phin St. in a bakery. Despair Ends in Suicide. For two days his troubles were apparently ended. But yesterday when he entered the bakery to start his day's work, the boss told him the job was no longer his, Seum went home, wrote the note, drove a n#l ii the wall near the bathroom door, got a ro. vheh he put around his neck, fixed the rope to the nail, climbed up a ladda. stepp<i crf and thus erdod perma. nently hi; win search for employ- ment in tn2 atleged pro:perous Uried States. P'SA, July 11 (UP).—Min: Fiance M sconi ar> Mir’ster of Ruonomy Martelli teck the oat’ of office yesterday at King Victcr im- maiwc.’s summee leaze ot San Roc- sore, —C, RABIN. PRRNTEM PILED’ photography, a capable cast headed’ little actress with a heart of gold, | neck in the doorway with a short! bilts and the Astors. Could anything | -_—_DRAMA-—— W4S FIRED KILLS “Ze Actress” at the Capitol on Pinero’s “Trelawney” {Mine Relief-Defense Pictorial Out Soon PITTSBURGH, July 11.—A four- page tabloid size relief-defense pic- torial will be off the press by. the end of this week. New pictures of the strikefields, picket lines, bar- rack life, the militant women pick- re tricked into the jail ile, Ohio, prominent strike leaders, Laura Calegari of Elm Grove, W. Va., and her two | babies the courts threatened to take away unless she gave up her picket line activities—all will be seen *in the new pictorial. New feature stories and first hand news from the industrial battle front! The pictorials. will sell for five cents apiece. Order your supply for the National Miners’ Relief-Defense Week, July 22nd to the 29th. Australian Grafters Charged With Bribery SYDNEY, Australia, July 11 (British United Press).—Three for- mer aldermen were charged on state government summonses today with being concerned in the alleged pay- | ment of big bribes by a British firm |interested in city contracts. | One of the men was charged with accepting $53,000; a second with taking $37,500, and a third with be- ing- implicated in certain acts al- leged to be connected with accep- tance of bribes. AMERICAN SAILOR , PREFERS LIFE ON SHIP OF SOVIETS “Bolshevism So Good ‘Would Die For It” (By a Worker Correspondent) SEATTLE, Wash.,) (By Mail)—1 write this just’ before we sail for Vladivostok on the S. S. Apex, re- cently bought by the government of the Soviet Union. Soviet Employ Liked. _ Just a few days ago I was on the beach here, had been for a month and it might have been months more if it wasn’t for the Bolsheviks su whom I am now working under the following conditions. ‘Seventy-five dullars for three watches; first class plenty of vegethbles and cof- me in the middle of each watch; smoking at the wheel. Everybody here is comrade, none of this Mr. and sir stuff. The captain, who has been to the Soviet Union before with another ship which the U. S. S. R. bought in 1924, knows what conditions are on the Soviet ships. He suggested that we form a soviet on this ship so we are sailing with a ship’s com- mittee in control, composed of one A. B, (able-bodied seaman), one oiler, the captain and the mess-boy. Proud of Bolshevism. We have just received the Soviet flag from Amtorg (Russian Ameri- can Trading Co.). I am sorty that T have no time to tell all that I would like to as we are taking on stores, and what stores! ~ LUN PARK Mats. Tuesday and Thursday, 2:80 The Heart f Coney Island Battle of Chateau-Thierry MILE SKY CHASER Free - Cireus, [certs and Daneine Con- | CEA 846th St, ¥. Mats. Woo. & Ast. CEA «G3 MANDEL'S MUSICAL SM45H {S00D NEWe with GEO, OLED. ini £18 MUSIC TAIPOLI, July 11 (UP).—Gw. De icno completed today an air- plane inspection trir during which he visited the garrisons at Ghadames and Nalut. of Broadway R Luna's Great Swimming Pool | of Brway | RAND Sr FOLLIES Evenings at 8:25 | Film Arts Keith-Albee Guild Presents / CAMEO Now i 42d & Bway | ———~ Premiere Thriting Drama of Russia. pe fs RAL Paris ‘LOVES } Of Jeanne Ney” A UFA Production Featuring Brigette Helm of “Metropolis” Directed by G. W. Pabst, director of “SECRETS OF THE SOUD” Also Showing: Chaplin in “Phe Vagabond” Chas. The LADDER — SHATS: NOW ON SALE 8 WEEKS IN ADVANCE. CORT THEATRE, W. 48 St. Eves. 8:30. First Mat. Sat. Money. Refunded if Not Satisfied With Play. RUNS AIRPLANE To Be Used in Bombing Raids PARIS, July 10 (UP).—A “phan- tom pilot” created by Max Boucher, French war flier, has been secretly tested at the Istres Aerodrome, it was revealed today. The tests were successful. The “phanton pilot” is constructed of steel and provided with muscles which respond in- stantly to controlling apparatus on the ground, permitting the plane to be maneuvered through any paces desired. Extensive details of Boucher’s creation were published today by La Petite Journal which said the se- cret tests had been conducted for many months during which the ex- periments were completed with great success. Today’s tests revealed the “phan- tom pilot” could go through regu- lar maneuvers and bring ‘the plane to earth at a speed of sixty miles per hour without the slightest shock. Experts of the aeronautics division who conducted the tests for the government were reported as highly pleased with the perform- ance. | It was predicted .that control of the mechanical pilot from a dis- tance of 100 kilometres would be possible soon, The control is es- tablished by signals and a system.of stabilizers which work through the automatic pilot. The government probably would make use of the “phantom “pilot” in bombing. plane raids, it was said | CAMP HULIET (Over the Delaware) LUMBERVILLE, PA. WORK- JUST A PLACE FOR A PR'S VACATION, Directions—By Bus or Trolley to Deyelstown and then by Camp Bus to the Camp, By Train—To Raven Rock, N. J., on the Penna R. R. 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